Marina Warner

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born

November 09, 1946 in London, The United Kingdom

gender

female

website

http://www.marinawarner.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Stories

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Marina Sarah Warner is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth.

She is a professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre at the University of Essex, and gave the Reith Lectures on the BBC in 1994 on the theme of 'Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time.'

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Books by Marina Warner

Average rating: 3.83 · 1,957 ratings · 211 reviews · 58 distinct works

	From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers 4.17 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Alone of All Her Sex by Marina Warner, Claude Lévi-Strauss (Prologue by) 4.01 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions	My rating:
	No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock by Marina Warner, Farrar Straus and Giroux 4.05 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More 3.68 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Indigo: Or, Mapping the Waters 3.62 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment by Marina Warner (Editor), Sophie Herxheimer (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism 3.75 avg rating — 48 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media Into the Twenty-First Century 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self 3.68 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder (Editor), Steven McLean (Notes) 3.73 avg rating — 60,184 ratings — published 1888 — 434 editions	My rating:

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“A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end, but only part of the journey, has lost its way, has had the very heart of its humanity torn out.”
― Marina Warner, The Leto Bundle

tags: death , journeys

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“The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.”
― Marina Warner, Alone of All Her Sex

tags: chastity , lust , purity , religion

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“The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.”
― Marina Warner, Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form

tags: female , feminism , gender , grammar , male

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